Philipsburg:--- Prime Minister of St. Maarten Sarah Wescot Williams drafted a resolution and fired labour and health Minister Maria Buncamper Molanus. SMN News has been reliably informed that the Prime Minister sent Minister Buncamper Molanus a letter on Thursday informing the Minister that effective January 1 she is no longer a Minister, making the Minister's last working day to be Friday December 31 2010.The source said Minister Bucamper Molanus also submitted a letter to the Prime Minister on Thursday afternoon informing her that she has now made her position available to the Council of Ministers. Last week Thursday, Minister Buncamper Molanus said she has made her position available to the parliament of St. Maarten when they were discussing the latest scandal involving the Minister and her husband Claudius Buncamper.
Minister Buncamper Molanus and her husband who is a senior civil servant sold the economic rights of a parcel of government land to which they were granted a long lease. The contested parcel of land was leased the out the same day government granted the Buncampers the long lease to St. Maarten Building Supplies.
At the time, the executive council granted the Buncampers the long lease Maria Buncamper Molanus was a commissioner and part of the executive council. The Buncampers later sold the economic rights to that property to Eco Green for three million USD. Eco Green was established three days prior to the sale.
Currently the prosecutor's office is investigating the Buncampers. Just recently the Prime Minister was asked to submit all documents relating to the granting of the long lease to the Buncampers.
The prosecutor's office has indicated that they will inform the media and the general public by mid January if there are sufficient grounds to prosecute the Buncampers.
